Volume 3 - CH 37.1

Act 3-37.1: East End Development Meeting

「I think you’ve pretty much already guessed about this, but let me clear it up. From this point on, you guys are going to live as the citizens of East End, which is governed by Rosemary. That’s why finding a new hiding place is the least of your worries.」

「Thank you very much.」

The old man, who was the representative of Wind Cat, stood from his seat, straightened his back, and bowed deeply as he expressed his gratitude to the entire Wind Cat. The other representatives from Wind Cat followed after him.

I thought that everyone would be bewildered, unable to believe their current situation, but they seemed to be pretty chill. Rather, what is this emotion that I feel from these fellas? Aren’t their eyes far too steady and firm?

「First, about the defence of this place. 【Crimson Raven】, I’ll leave the defences of this place to you guys.」

「Lord! Please allow this insolent, disrespectful fool to interrupt your speech!」

Suddenly, an old man with brown-coloured cropped hair interrupted my statement.

「Uhm? Is something the matter?」

「We don’t need the protection from the likes of such weak and unknown humans. Please leave the defence to us!」

「W-Weak――」

Oboro stood from his seat the moment he heard that remark,

「SHUT UP! YOU FU〇×▽◆RM!!」

The brown-haired old man with crop cut spouted such an intense remark, that shouldn’t be said by any good kid, with an indignant voice. Soon, a human-shaped smoke appeared and grabbed Oboro by the nape of his neck, and slammed his face down on the table. That seemed like the divine protection from one of the members of the subjugation picture book.

「Enough. They’re citizens of East End too. You aren’t allowed to fight.」

「Yes! My apologies for the discourtesy! 」

The old man straightened his back immediately, with his heels touching, and bowed towards me upon my reminder.

These guys! Until just two weeks ago, they were feeble-minded fellas who didn’t even want to fight for themselves and lost their will to fight even before the battle. I mean, isn’t their transformation a little bit too much? Complete inside-out. Now, every one of them had this scary look in their eyes. That Girimekhala, just what kind of training did he give to these people to transform them into this?

「Sorry. It seems we went a little overboard with their training.」

Lucas revealed a strained smile on his face while Felis wore a perplexed look on her face as she groaned with a stifled voice,「Where’s my innocent and kind families?」

「Are you serious!? I mean, do we really need to protect a city in which a monster who can clip our wings easily lives in?」

「I can’t deny that I guess. I received the report about your combat from Nemea. You guys barely managed to come out as victor thanks to your combat tactic and battle sense that comes with years of training and experience. It’s the reason why I choose you guys to do this job. Nemea, train them until you feel they’re ready to do their job!」

I mean, it’ll turn into magic remodeling containing mysterious techniques if I leave this to Girimekhala again. I think leaving this matter to him would only make things more troublesome in various ways. In short, he might create another batch of fanatics. Some people who had already trodden the point of no return.

「As You Wish! Let’s start immediately! 」

The lion beastman, Nemea, gave a bow and then seized Oboro by the nape of his neck, dragging the latter out with him. Oboro’s subordinates followed from behind like calfs about to be sold.

「Next is our funds. As all of you may know, we can’t do anything without ample funds.」

「Saving money is much easier than gathering it, the total number of the citizen is two thousand, and that’s including the three kings of the underworld. Naturally, there’s a cost for maintenance and daily meals, do you have any idea regarding this situation?」

Rose rubbed her chin as she asked for my opinion with a meek look on her face.

「Well, about that. Tao Family, this is the medicine that I developed. Can you sell this?」

I placed a jar containing red liquid in front of the girl with tanned skin with black hair bundled into a bun―― Rinrin Raafan, which startled her.

「Developed?… What is this?」

「Low-grade potion.」

Amongst the books that I found in that easy dungeon, a lot of them described the method to create magical equipment. Aside from the fountain that gushed out elixir infinitely, 【Panacea】 was the exclusive skill that couldn’t be affected by any person aside from me. Thus, I, who was in dire need of an alternate way to heal my wounds started countless experiments during my free time in that dungeon.

Finally, I secured a few other methods to heal myself during the emergency.

The main ingredient for that potion was a grass called Toul grass. Moreover, this grass mainly grew en masse in an area rich with mana as it naturally grew by absorbing mana in the air, thus the mana concentration in its parts was high upon maturation.

In this regard, the concentration of mana in this 【Demonic Forest】 was simply abnormal. I could think of various reasons that might cause this situation, but that was a trivial matter compared to the fact that we could literally get the endless supply of superior-grade Tulu grass for free.

There’s nothing to waste from the Tulu grass since everyone could literally make advanced grade potion as long as they followed the manufacturing step properly.

「Low-grade potion?」

I guess letting her see the effects was the fastest way to explain this particular item. I sent a side-glance to Rinrin, whose beautiful eyebrows frowned as she demanded more explanation. I pulled Murasame from its sheath, loaded my mana into it and made a shallow cut on my finger. The next thing I did was scoop the red liquid from the jar with the ladle and gulped the liquid. As if time was rewound, the cut on my finger healed at a visible rate.

「…」

Though Rinrin could only stare dumbfoundedly upon seeing the healing process of the cut on my finger, she took out a knife from her waist with a swift movement, cut her finger after a slight hesitation, then took the ladle from my hand and drank the remaining red liquid in the ladle at once. And similarly, the cut on her finger healed at a rapid pace.

Beads of sweat started to appear on Rinrin’s healthy tanned skin the moment she tried the effect of the potion herself.

「Uhm, are you surprised since the potion is so sweet and tasty? Yes, the taste of a normal potion is so horrible. And that’s already common sense that the potion’s taste is horrible. BUT, THIS POTION OF MINE IS SWEET AND TASTY! With this evolved potion of mine, from those noisy gourmands to children who hate bitter medicine, none of them could resist its tempta――」

「I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE TASTE!!」

Upon hearing Rinrin blatantly denying the fruits of my research as she stared at the pot of potion with bloodshot eyes,

「I see… even though it was the point that I spend so much time to improve its taste…」

My shoulders dropped in dejection. Actually, the most troublesome part was changing the taste of the potion that was so horrible to the point that no one wanted to drink it. I mean, the book about the method to make a potion never said anything about its taste.

Naturally, a potion of intermediate grade or above could show its effect just by sprinkling it over the wound, but, in my personal opinion, drinking it would maximize its effect.

「WHAT IS THIS!?」

Rinrin seized my collar and asked as she shook my upper body.

Rinrin’s subordinates raised a scream upon being exposed by the storm of killing intent from Girimekhala who got pissed off by Rinrin’s actions.

The eyes of a giant monster with a long nose had already been killed with killing intent. In a normal situation, she would’ve trembled in fear at this point. But, the current Rinrin had already forgotten about the situation around her.

「Okay, calm down.」

「ANSWER ME, WHAT-IS-THIS!?」

Upon seeing that Rinrin was too excited to notice the current situation, I quickly raised my right hand, signalling Girimekhala who was enraged to stop him from killing Rinrin.

「I’ve told you that this is POTION. The sweet version.」

After releasing my collar, she walked back to her seat and grabbed the pot of potion with her hands.
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